Alexandria, VA political money — 2014 cycle

How Alexandria, VA meets the 2014 election cycle

$129,437 is the overlap of two FEC dimensions: contributor city ALEXANDRIA with state VA, and election cycle 2014. The match is $129,437 across 194 itemized contribution rows. The city side of the table, covering every cycle in the aggregate, is $251,483,471. 2014 therefore accounts for 0.05% of Alexandria, VA itemized individual dollars in these facts. The remaining $251,354,034 (99.9%) was itemized in other cycles under the same city label.

This is not a restatement of Alexandria, VA. That hub mixes 2014 with every other even-year window filed under ALEXANDRIA. It is also not a restatement of the 2014 election cycle hub, which mixes Alexandria, VA with every other donor city. The 194 rows and $129,437 exist only where both filters are true. Correlation is not causation: a city code plus a cycle year does not prove why someone gave, whom they supported, or whether the recipient was local.

The Alexandria, VA side of the join

The city aggregate for Alexandria, VA is $251,483,471 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is the running total for this city label across cycles, not a single-year census and not a count of unique residents. It includes the $129,437 from 2014 and the $251,354,034 from every other cycle in the same city file. Virginia campaign-finance pages still mix Alexandria with every other city in VA.

The stored city is Alexandria, an independent city in Virginia. Arlington, VA and Washington, DC are other keys even when the commute is shared. Alexandria, LA would be a different state code. Keep VA on every citation. $251,483,471 is the VA key only. A large city total does not mean 2014 was large, and a small city total does not mean 2014 was small. For Alexandria, VA, the city stack is $251,483,471 while this cycle is $129,437 (0.05%). Donor city is not the same as recipient city: committees that received these gifts can be anywhere in the FEC system.

The 2014 cycle side for Virginia filers in Alexandria

Federal election cycles are two-year windows on FEC.gov. The 2014 cycle is the Commission’s cycle tag on itemized receipts, not a calendar year of January gifts only. 2014 is a midterm election cycle. That calendar label does not explain $129,437. Inside that window, Alexandria, VA donors itemized $129,437 on 194 contribution records. Dividing dollars by rows gives a mean of about $667 per itemized gift. That mean is an arithmetic average of rows, not a typical donor and not a median. This page does not publish a median or a unique-donor count.

One hundred ninety-four receipts totaling $129,437 against a $251,483,471 Alexandria book is about 0.05% of city dollars. High line count with a modest 2014 total usually means many small itemized gifts inside a large Northern Virginia city stack. Do not treat 194 rows as 194 unique residents. The national 2014 hub still includes every other city. State pages for Virginia still include every other cycle. Only this join isolates Alexandria × 2014. Unitemized contributions below the FEC itemization threshold are omitted.

2014 rows versus Alexandria’s large city book

0.05% of $251,483,471 is a small slice of the published city book. The city hub is mostly other even-year windows, totaling $251,354,034. Put another way, about 0.05% of Alexandria, VA itemized individual dollars in this aggregate were filed in 2014, and about 99.9% were not. Those percentages are $129,437 divided by $251,483,471 and $251,354,034 divided by $251,483,471. They are not shares of state totals, national cycle totals, or eligible voters.

Dollar share (0.05%) and row volume (194 itemized gifts) are separate facts. This packet does not include a citywide row count across all cycles, so a row-share percentage is not computed. Do not treat 0.05% as Alexandria’s share of the 2014 national cycle, which is a different denominator and is not in these facts. Independent expenditures and committee-to-committee transfers are other tables.

What $129,437 does not measure

194 itemized contributions totaling $129,437 is the operational definition of this page. The FEC file can list the same household on multiple dates, to multiple committees, and under spelling variants of ALEXANDRIA. Unique-person counts are not in the packet and are not invented here. Neither is a ranking of Alexandria versus other Virginia cities: this join has one geography and one cycle. Mean gift size of about $667 uses only $129,437 and 194 rows.

$129,437 is itemized federal individual contributions with contributor city ALEXANDRIA. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold sit outside it. State-office campaigns in Virginia file under state law and sit outside it. A candidate who lives in Alexandria can raise money from other cities; those gifts are not this join. City labels are filer-entered. LobbyVault does not rewrite the city field into a Census place.

Reading Alexandria and 2014 without mixing tables

This page does not rank Alexandria against other cities, does not call 2014 a wave, and does not treat itemized giving as a proxy for public opinion in Virginia. Two columns matched. A VA address on an individual receipt does not mean the money supported a Virginia candidate. Amended reports can move either number. If the live Alexandria, VA hub or the live 2014 cycle hub disagrees with this prose, the newer FEC extract controls.

See Alexandria, VA, the 2014 election cycle, Virginia campaign finance, and all FEC ties for the adjacent tables. Dollar figures are FEC itemized individual contribution aggregates. They are not federal spending awards and they do not fund USAspending totals. Source: FEC.gov. Canonical path is /ties/va-alexandria-2014-donations/.

Questions

How much did Alexandria, VA filers report in 2014?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing Alexandria, VA total $129,437 in the 2014 cycle, across 194 contribution records. The same city label totals $251,483,471 across all cycles in this aggregate, so 2014 is 0.05% of that city stack. Figures are from FEC.gov city-by-cycle aggregates.

Is the Alexandria, VA city total only for 2014?

No. The city aggregate of $251,483,471 covers every cycle in the table for ALEXANDRIA. The 2014 filter is $129,437 from 194 itemized gifts. Other cycles hold $251,354,034. Use the city hub for the all-cycle total and this tie page for the 2014 slice.

Did Alexandria, VA 2014 donations stay in Virginia?

Not necessarily. Donor city is Alexandria, VA; recipients can be committees anywhere that file with the FEC. This join does not allocate the $129,437 by office, state of the committee, or party. A VA city code is an address field on the individual receipt, not a map of Virginia races.

How many Alexandria, VA contributions were itemized in 2014?

194 itemized contribution records sum to $129,437. That count is rows, not unique donors. The arithmetic mean is about $667 per row. Unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and independent expenditures are not included. Citywide unique-donor counts are not in these facts.